Take part in the 1st International „End Polio Now“ Go Tournament!

By Christoph Klawe | News | 20.12.2020 18:45 | Comments: 1

Sure, there are more important problems in life than Go, but sometimes Go can help at least a little bit to solve these issues, too. One such issue is poliomyelitis („polio“). This terrible virus disease used to be very frequent. It affects mostly children, destroys nerve centers and often leads to severe and lasting handicap or even death. Poliomyelitis can be effectively prevented by a well explored and safe vaccination. Thanks to this, the number of new cases per year went down from 350,000 in 1988 to less than 100 in 2019. Now, polio exists in only two countries of the world, Afghanistan and Pakistan.  Read more...

Interview with Ilya Shikshin, European Champion 2020

By Artem Kachanovskyi | Interviews | 05.11.2020 22:47 | Comments: 2

An interview with Ilya Shikshin 3p (Russia) who has just won the 2020 European Championship  Read more...

2020 European online Championship

By Jean-Yves Papazoglou | News | 12.10.2020 20:21 | Comments: 2

Every year during our European go congress (EGC), the European go championship (EC) is organised.

Due to the COVID19 pandemic the 2020 EGC couldn't take place in Ukraine. Hence, the European go championship was cancelled, and we lost our funding for its prizes.  Read more...

Recent Go News: Summer and first half of Autumn

By Artem Kachanovskyi | News | 09.10.2020 20:58

News Round-Up about the biggest recent Go events in Europe  Read more...

Junior Match between China and the UK

International | 09.09.2020 9:52 | Comments: 1

An international match was played between teams from UK and China. The UK team was drawn from the national youth squad, which includes players up to age 19. The team from China was drawn from the pupils of Li Ang, a professional 3-dan. Their ages ranged from 6 to 10 years old. The match was played with the same system as that of the famous Super Go contests - the winner plays on.   Read more...

Pandanet Go European Team Championship - France keeps its European title

By Antoine Fenech | News | 03.09.2020 20:17

The French team managed last weekend to remain European champions after defeating Ukraine, Czechia and Russia. During the regular season, Junfu, Tanguy, Thomas, Benjamin, Rémi and Florent did their job, taking second place in the league, and qualifying for the finals. Unfortunately, due to the Covid 19 pandemic, the final couldn’t take place in Ukraine as planned initially and had to be organized online.  Read more...

Tournament between European Students and Fudan University Team

By Artem Kachanovskyi | News | 26.08.2020 22:09 | Comments: 25

An announcement of the tournament between European Students and Fudan University Team  Read more...

Annual General Meeting 2020, some Updates

By Lorenz Trippel | News | 15.08.2020 18:52 | Comments: 3

The first online meeting in the history of the EGF took place on 28th July on Zoom with around 60 participants of which 27 directly represented their country assocation.  Read more...

EGF-Academy: Call For Supporters!

By Gabriel Wagner | Articles | 13.08.2020 11:18

The EGF-Academy is the training platform for Europe's most talented youth players. In order to sustain the project financially, we need YOUR support. We do our best to make this a true win-win-situation by offering you access to the best lectures and study material from the past 5 years!  Read more...